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Most Popular Dating Site by State (MAP)

Which Online Love Connection is Your State Falling for?

Love is in the air and it’s apparent online, where an increasing number of singles find their next date virtually. Cupid’s arrows hit the target in online dating apps, which have seen triple the users in recent years. At highspeedinternet.com, we wanted to speculate about which platforms get used most often to find partners in each state, and if any patterns emerged in our collective search for the perfect match.

What did our quest for dating data uncover? Niche apps that focus on demographic factors like religion, gender, or lifestyle are on the rise and trending heavily in certain parts of the country. We expected to see wide areas of Tinder country, where swiping right is part of the single life. And it’s true that Tinder peppers our map from sea to shining sea. But the unexpected winner of our virtual lonely hearts club? Christian Mingle, a faith-based dating site, dominates the Bible Belt. Unfortunately, experts have long observed that higher divorce rates also reign across the same sections of country, so perhaps Christians are mingling a little too much. Ahem.

To identify the most popular dating app, we utilized Google Trends data and isolated apps and sites that had statistically significant popularity in each state.

STATE DATING APP DESCRIPTION
Alabama Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Alaska Tinder Gamified Dating App
Arizona Tinder Gamified Dating App
Arkansas Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
California Coffee Meets Bagel Ladies choice dating
Colorado eHarmony Traditional Profile Match Site
Connecticut Match.com Dating community
Delaware eHarmony Traditional Profile Match Site
DC Hinge FB friends Dating App
Florida Senior People Meet Senior-focused dating
Georgia Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Hawaii Grindr Gay dating app
Idaho Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
Illinois Tinder Gamified Dating App
Indiana Grindr Gay dating app
Iowa Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
Kansas Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Kentucky Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Louisiana Cougar Life Older women focused dating
Maine Tinder Gamified Dating App
Maryland eHarmony Traditional Profile Match Site
Massachusetts Senior People Meet Senior-focused dating
Michigan Tinder Gamified Dating App
Minnesota eHarmony Traditional Profile Match Site
Mississippi Lulu Women centric dating
Missouri Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Montana Plenty of Fish Traditional Profile Match Site
Nebraska Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
Nevada Grindr Gay dating app
New Hampshire Match.com Dating community
New Jersey Bumble Women first dating
New Mexico Grindr Gay dating app
New York Happn Location based dating
North Carolina Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
North Dakota Match.com Dating community
Ohio Tinder Gamified Dating App
Oklahoma Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
Oregon Down Casual dating
Pennsylvania Down Casual dating
Rhode Island Tinder Gamified Dating App
South Carolina Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
South Dakota Match.com Dating community
Tennessee Christian Mingle Faith-Based Profile Matching
Texas Down Casual dating
Utah LDS Singles Dating for Mormons
Vermont OKCupid Traditional Profile Match Site
Virginia Down Casual dating
Washington Tinder Gamified Dating App
West Virginia Farmer’s Only Rural focused dating
Wisconsin Match.com Dating community
Wyoming Zoosk International Dating App

Let’s do a deep dive into the data, shall we? We’ll determine exactly what the state of dating is in the United States and which apps have a little something more to say about the state that loves them.

Regional Romance

What’s trending across particular parts of the country? Take a look at what each region is head over heels for.

  • The South is way into Christian Mingle, choosing to keep the faith in online romance.
  • Western parts of the United States are down with more casual hook-ups like Grindr, Down, and Tinder.
  • The Northeast kicks it old-school with traditional profile sites like eHarmony, com, OK Cupid.
  • Midwest states keep it in the country by dating with Farmer’s Only.

 

Church Connections

The more heavily religious an area is, the more likely the favored darting app is to be affiliated with religion.

  • All across the Bible Belt, Christians can’t resist getting together with Christian Mingle.
  • Mormon couples opt to find the perfect connection in Utah with LDS Singles.

As you go west, however, and the non-religious population grows, religiously-affiliated dating gets jilted. You won’t find a single state that prefers to mingle the Christian way beyond the Rockies.

 

It’s all About the Ladies

Lots of recent, trendy dating apps focus on women  for a reason. Most of them are popular in states with some serious girl power going on.

 

A Few Other Favorite Findings 

 


Does your state’s dating app obsession seem like the perfect match? Share our map and discuss. But no fighting, kids. Only love. Sweet, sweet love.

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Kaz is a writer, blogger and social media junkie. She uses her tenacity to investigate the best of the Internets.

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